From the Mind of Meegs

Now that I work downtown, there is a lot of running in my life. There's still the 20 or so miles of my usual running. But now there is running to make the train, running to make it to work, running to avoid getting hit by traffic, etc.

But, for some reason I can't figure out, I have done a great job of getting my ass in gear in the mornings, such that I do not have to run for the train (most) mornings. I don't understand this because getting my ass in gear in the mornings has never been my forte.

So while I'm not running in the mornings, I get to contemplate the sign outside a local mechanic's that says "Winters coming Spooky isnt it"--how profound. Three things bother me about this sign.

(1) Lack of punctuation.

(2) I guess this doesn't bother me, but it always makes me think of the rock and roll fantasy camp episode of The Simpsons. "I've got to put up the storm windows. Winter's coming!" If you've never seen the episode, you didn't get that just now.

(3) Finally, I realize that they're going for a Halloween connection "spooky," but the arrival of winter is not at all spooky. What would be spooky is if winter didn't arrive, thereby screwing with the previous several millennia of weather patterns.